A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin’s most influential work
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.”
Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the twentieth century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic. His criticism on topics such as the paternalism of white progressives or on his own friend Richard Wright’s work is pointed and unabashed. He was also one of the few writing on race at the time who addressed the issue with a powerful mixture of outrage at the gross physical and political violence against black citizens and measured understanding of their oppressors, which helped awaken a white audience to the injustices under their noses. Naturally, this combination of brazen criticism and unconventional empathy for white readers won Baldwin as much condemnation as praise.
Notes is the book that established Baldwin’s voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin’s own search for identity as an artist, as a black man, and as an American.
發表於2024-12-24
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讀起來感覺聽悲傷的。:(
評分尼哥文學我好無力...棄瞭棄瞭還是看弗洛伊德去吧
評分actually deserves 4.5/5 but there's no half star... so there you go
評分敏銳,有力,對個人經驗的反思和對種族問題的結構性批判幾近完美地融閤在一起
評分備課需要又斷斷續續讀瞭一遍,還是覺得Baldwin是我最能認同的黑人作傢。他對族裔和身份的思考有來自切身體驗的憤怒,同時也有作傢的自覺,忠誠於一種抽象的文學本身並沒有把族裔寫作變成訴苦大賽。他可以坦誠狄更斯對他的影響,也會明確地說寫黑人問題並不是他寫作的目的,隻是一個黑人作傢為瞭開始真正的寫作必須處理的包袱。
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